From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 6:11: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sminter.com.ar (ns1.sminter.com.ar [200.10.100.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D0D14D22 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 06:11:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar) Received: (from fpscha@localhost) by ns1.sminter.com.ar (8.8.5/8.8.4) id KAA14654; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:08:34 -0300 (GMT) From: Fernando Schapachnik Message-Id: <199904231308.KAA14654@ns1.sminter.com.ar> Subject: Re: Partition sizes on 3.1 In-Reply-To: from "Clem.Dye@wdr.com" at "Apr 23, 99 02:00:50 pm" To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:08:34 -0300 (GMT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG En un mensaje anterior, Clem.Dye@wdr.com escribió: > I've got to go through this exercise myself soon, when I build my box > - when I get the time - sigh, so I'm interested in how other people > have laid-out their drives. In my case I have 3.2GB to play with. I > plan to allow ~150MB for a swap partition (I have 72MB ram), 100MB > for /, but beyond that I'm open to ideas. I'm not sure if having > /usr/local on a separate partition actually buys you much (but will This allows you to reinstall the OS without loosing your applications or its .conf files. > stand to be corrected). What about a separate slice for swap - worth > doing? Yes of course. Also don't forget to put /home and /tmp on separate partitions, so 1) fulling /tmp doesn't affect /. 2) You can mount them noexec to add security and prevent things like hard links to /etc/passwd and similar. Regards. Fernando P. Schapachnik Administración de la red VIA Net Works Argentina SA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message